[prateek_mir]

A brilliant Idea; as far as usability for a normal user is concerned, How feasible is it to modify a browser to take the command directly via the address bar, and internally a thread can handle the ssh part, redirecting the user directly to the newly generated link ?

[the8472]

Would be feasible as a firefox addon since those have the same privileges as the browser process itself. Afaik chrome's extension APIs are too restrictive to allow for something like that.

[icebraining]

Not that hard (I've written Firefox extensions that run external programs), but what would you gain over SSL client certs, which are already supported?

[XorNot]

I have an SSH key and use it routinely. I've never used SSL client certs.

[stephenr]

At some point in time you'd never used an SSH key, either. And then you did.